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Malik Ambar (1548 – 13 May 1626) was a military leader who served as the Peshwa (Prime Minister) of the Ahmadnagar Sultanate in the Deccan region of India. [5] Born in the Adal Sultanate, which comprised parts of present-day Ethiopia, Somalia, and Djibouti, Malik was sold by a slave merchant and brought to India as a slave.
Malik Ambar was a prime minister and general of African descent who served the Ahmadnagar Sultanate. He is regarded as a pioneer in guerilla warfare in the region along with being credited for carrying out a revenue settlement of much of the Deccan, which formed the basis for subsequent settlements.
May 9, 2020 · The story of Malik Ambar, an African slave turned warrior, is an unusual one. Sold and bought several times by slave dealers during his youth, fate brought him miles away from his home in Ethiopia to India.
Oct 6, 2021 · Who is Malik Ambar? The African Slave turned Indian Mercenary Kingmaker. Leading his army of freed slaves to guard fabulously wealthy lands far from his Ethiopian home, Malik Ambar embodies the rags to riches story like no one else. Oct 6, 2021 • By Varun Gupta, BA History & English Literature. Malik Ambar with a Rose by unknown, 1600-1610.
May 31, 2011 · Malik Ambar, the formidable Habshi repeatedly routed the imperial armies and recovered Ahamednagar. The forces of Prince Khurram had drove them back to Khandesh but this tactful general created a Maratha cavalry which later culminated in the Great Maratha Kingdom under the nose of Aurangzeb.
Malik Ambar's story is an incredible tale of success against all odds -- of a slave building a new life for himself in a foreign land, and of the Deccan region in India attempting to hold the...
Aug 30, 2011 · Malik Ambar was among the tens of thousands of men, women, and children captured in Africa and sold into slavery in the Middle East and India over nearly nine centuries. His story is also an indication of the ability of some in the predominantly Muslim Indian Ocean world to rise far above their initial servile status.
May 31, 2021 · Malik Ambar (1548–13 May 1626) was a Siddi military leader and the prime minister of the Ahmadnagar Sultanate in India's Deccan region. Malik was born in the Adal Sultunate, in present-day Ethiopia, and was sold as a child and brought to India as a slave.
Jul 19, 2018 · A former slave from Ethiopia, Malik Ambar’s life tells the story of slaves who were brought to India only to later take up the reins of power. Malik, born under the name Chapu, in 1548 A.D.,...
Jun 20, 2024 · An Ethiopian slave known to history as “Malik Ambar” was already seventeen years old in 1565, the year of the Battle of Talikota. If that date signaled the beginning of a slide into near-oblivion for the city of Vijayanagara, for the Ethiopian it heralded the dawn of an extraordinary career.
